Person chargeable with duty must be the importer at importation; subsequent purchasers cannot be held liable where beneficial owner rules did not appl...
Prohibited importation of cosmetics without prior regulatory registration attracts seizure and confiscation; warehousing or re export claims do not cu...
Provisional release on security permitted where cash deposit plus bond secures differential duty; classification and treaty benefits referred for deci...
Customs Valuation Rule Sequence must be followed; single-comparator re-determination and penalties set aside without comparability or proof of mis-dec...
Non-injurious price in anti-dumping proceedings had to be disclosed with sufficient factual detail before final findings, because the calculation directly affected normal value, injury margin and the recommendation of nil duty. The Tribunal found that the disclosure statement did not explain the methodology or basis of the working, so the exporter could not effectively respond; disclosure after final findings caused prejudice and the nil-duty recommendation was set aside and remitted for fresh determination with reasonable opportunity. On product scope, semi-finished ophthalmic lenses with refractive index above 1.6 were upheld as excluded from the product under consideration because the domestic industry did not actually produce that category and the items were not technically or commercially substitutable.
Non-injurious price in anti-dumping proceedings had to be disclosed with sufficient factual detail before final findings, because the calculation directly affected normal value, injury margin and the recommendation of nil duty. The Tribunal found that the disclosure statement did not explain the methodology or basis of the working, so the exporter could not effectively respond; disclosure after final findings caused prejudice and the nil-duty recommendation was set aside and remitted for fresh determination with reasonable opportunity. On product scope, semi-finished ophthalmic lenses with refractive index above 1.6 were upheld as excluded from the product under consideration because the domestic industry did not actually produce that category and the items were not technically or commercially substitutable.
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